Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

The World Health Organization ( WHO) has responded to President Donald Trump 's recent executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the organization, warning that this move may undermine its core mission.

Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency.

U.S. President Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization for the second time in less than five years.

The United States will leave the World Health Organization on Jan. 22, 2026, the United Nations said on Thursday, after being formally notified of the decision by President Donald Trump, who has accused the agency of mishandling the pandemic and other international health crises.

World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.

ordered that the United States take steps to withdraw from the World Health Organization. Washington’s more than 70-year membership in the WHO nearly ended in Trump’s first term in office ...

WHO, the United Nations health ... event in Washington, DC, on Monday. - Matt Rourke/AP Trump first tried to exit WHO during his first term in 2020, accusing the organization of “severely ...

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The executive order cites the organization ... WHO would make the world far less healthy and safe,” Lawrence Gostin, director of the WHO Collaborating Center on Global Health Law at Georgetown ...

As expected, President Donald Trump hit the ground running on Monday, signing scores of executive orders on various topics ranging from immigration to social issues. Among the policies implemented by Trump on his first day back in the White House were orders to withdraw the United States from two key international institutions.

The ending of the commitment to the World Health Organization by the United States poses as an existential threat to the well-being of the international working class.